Financial Counselling Victoria welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to the consultation on the Victorian State Government’s Third Action Plan to End Family Violence as part of Victoria’s 10-Year Plan for Change.

A community-wide approach is integral in achieving the vision that all Victorians are safe, thriving and living free from family and sexual violence and abuse.  The lens we bring to this submission is to create a greater understanding of the complexities and breadth financial  and service systems abuse, ongoing gender inequality and the integral role financial counsellors play in working with victim-survivors, adults using family violence and across the family violence service system.